DeepMind Dismantles AlphaFold Team as Key Authors Leave for Anthropic
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-29
Google DeepMind is dismantling its renowned AlphaFold team, according to The Decoder. The majority of the researchers behind the project have been reassigned to other initiatives, and nearly a quarter have left the company altogether, with some key authors joining Anthropic.
This restructuring marks a significant strategic shift for DeepMind, moving away from the protein-folding prediction work that originally put the lab on the map.
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